LINEUP
- MARIA TAYLOR
Supported by:
- SEPHINE LLO
- ESME WHITE
MARIA TAYLOR
Maria Taylor is a singer-songwriter celebrated for her hushed vocals, cinematic atmospheres, and emotionally resonant storytelling — both as a solo artist and as a founding member of Azure Ray. Her forthcoming album, Story’s End, unfolds like a hazy, widescreen narrative, with each song acting as a chapter tracing love, loss, fracture, and the quiet search for solace in the aftermath. Written over several years and shaped by profound personal upheaval, the record finds Taylor expanding the signature elements of her work — bell-like piano, sweeping strings, and intimate lyricism — into something more nuanced, expansive, and ultimately life-affirming. Recorded between her California home studio and ARC Studios in Omaha, Story’s End features collaborations with Mike Mogis, Ben Brodin, Brad Armstrong, Conor Oberst, Nate Walcott, and others. The album gradually arrives at a fragile but powerful sense of transformation and hope. At once journal-like and cinematic, Story’s End offers listeners a space for reflection and consolation, paying close attention to the fleeting moments that quietly give life its meaning.Maria recently sang harmonies on three songs on Phoebe Bridgers’ last record. She sang on her John prine cover “summer’s end” and the last few years she toured the US, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand playing drums for Bright Eyes.
SEPHINE LLO
Sephine Llo is a British composer and multi-instrumentalist, with an unconventional song-writing style that marries 18th Century UK folk roots, neoclassical flourishes and organically created glitchy electronica. A classically trained and multi award-winning artist (with the AMS Neve award for creative recording accolade, among others); and holder of a coveted First-Class Honours degree from the world-renowned Tonmeister course, her sound is an innovative and rich concoction of grave, distorted soundscapes wrapping around her heart-wrenching orchestrations, and uniquely ethereal, often choral-esque vocal harmonies.Her debut EP "Flame" and first album "I, Your Moon", garnered attention from the likes of Wonderland, 405, Clash, BBC3 Late Junction and Radio X ‘Xposure’, performing at Union Chapel and Wilderness Festival. However the loss of her husband Robbie (Autumn Chorus) to cancer when she was pregnant with their first child put an untimely hiatus on her creative career for several years; gratefully she came back to her artistry, releasing her most personal account to date, "Diamond Fall", a concept album around her grief, incorporating samples of Robbie's unfinished works.
ESME WHITE
Esme White is a New York-born, London-based singer-songwriter whose songs draw on poetry, myth, and everyday life. Her music jumbles country, folk, punk, hades, ravenous beasts, and bloody noses. Her debut EP, Dead End Daydreams, released in 2024 on Spiritual Records, has already earned her spots on some of London’s most iconic stages, including the 100 Club, St. Pancras Old Church, and The Green Note, and she’s opened for Jesus at his funeral and Mother Mary on her wedding day.